Jason Gregor texted me to say "I have baby business to attend to on Saturday. Gregor 2,0 is only weeks away. I will need you to write the GDB for the Red Wings game." "Me?" we replied "last time I wrote a GDB people said it was silly and cried for you to write every one until 2099."

Well one doesn't argue with Jason Gregor if one hopes to be alive for the next Oilers win. So here goes nothing.

AND SO IT CONTINUES

How many ways are there to say that the Oilers rebuild is taking longer than it took to rebuild Europe after WWII? At some point we start to scramble for new acronyms making a chase for last place an exciting proposition.

After the pantsing the Leafs gave the Oil on Tuesday - in front of LeafsNation Steve Dangle who had flown in for the match no less - it is hard to make bold predictions of Oilers wins. We sat there at Rexall Place, next to the King of all Maple Leafs fans watching them cheer and smile and raise their fists in triumph. We want that so badly for all our fellow Oilers fans it hurts.

Yes, if you told us "Wanye, all you have to do is get hit by a car and the Oil will turn around quick as a flash" we would run screaming from Wanye Manor and get hit square by the first motorcar we happened to see. Sadly it ain't that easy. But there are still things we can do as Oilers fans to try and turn the ship around.

In fact we have an idea.

AN IDEA

We hockey fans are a superstitious lot. Lucky underwear, lucky beer brand, lucky type of fur coat deodorizer. Cheering from the same seat on the couch. We all have some little foible we cling to in the hopes it makes our beloved Oilers win. Well Nation whatever we are doing is wrong.

We need to collectively reboot our lucky charms and send a wave of new karma out into the universe. Rather than focusing on what we don't want - more losses, more injuries, more Grebeshkovs in the lineup - we need to take new actions focused on what we want.

Wins.

Pictured at the top of the article is our most prized possession - our Eberle jersey purchased minutes after 14 scored his mind shattering first goal in the NHL. Thinking it was lucky we haven't so much as cleaned it once in the 4 years since. At the quarter pole of his 5th season it is clear the luck ain't working.

So we took the jersey to the cleaners on Thursday and got it back clean as clean can be. This was our major good luck charm these past 4 years and we wouldn't dream of doing this normally. But drastic times call for drastic measures. We invite you to reconsider whatever lucky charms you have and bring new ones out. The team needs it Nation. It's the only thing left we can think of doing.

Let us know if you think of anything you can do to reboot the franchise's luck. Burn your lucky drawers. Switch brands of game day beer. Remarry a new luckier wife if you think it will help. Just do something positive that is a break with the past.

We beg you.

LINEUP - GOOD

According to DailyFaceOff.com the Oilers are icing the forward corps above and the defensive pairings below. And according to the very same site Bachman will get the start in between the pipes tonight.

LINEUP - BAD

Forwards up, defense below and something called a Petr Mrazek will be tending for the Wings tonight. Poor bugger won't even have a chance.

PREDICTIONS R US

GAME DAY PREDICTION: Oilers win 4-2 shocking many including the Oilers themselves.

OBVIOUS GAME DAY PREDICTION: During the second intermission Coack Babcock screams at Mrazek to step his game up to which the goalie tearfully replies "I don't even know who I am. WHY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH DID YOU START ME IN AN NHL GAME?"

NOT-SO-OBVIOUS GAME DAY PREDICTION: Hearing about the jersey cleaning Jordan Eberle pots a pair of goals. In the post game scrum he comments "I knew something was holding me back this year. Here all this time it was a ratty jersey covered in shots of Jack Daniels from the Pint. I wish Wanye had gotten his hygenic act together years ago."

Hearing my name mentioned by King Jordan I immediately transcend into a beam of pure joy and shoot into space.

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Justin Schulz being replaced by Phil Larsen. Pitlick and Perron still out.Ryan Hamilton in. After 6 years in the toilet Oilers are still icing an AHL lineup, only now it is only 15 games into the season. I do not know what else to say.

Just got a text from my main man Rick at the Pint "Just found my '06 Western Conference Champions hat in the back of my closet. We have had bad luck since I bought it the day after we beat Anaheim. I just threw it out."

Just got a text from my main man Rick at the Pint "Just found my '06 Western Conference Champions hat in the back of my closet. We have had bad luck since I bought it the day after we beat Anaheim. I just threw it out."

WOW! The Oilers lineup tonight looks soooo sweet! All that offensive power! Speed! The Wings will be no match for our beloved. I have in my possession a cardboard sign made by my friend when he was hitchhiking back into etown during the '06 final. I've held onto it for many years, but this afternoon I plan on putting it in the fire pit. Go Oilers!!!

here is the sign http://www.flickr.com/photos/60404254@N00/10631665896/

Wayne can you please write every GDB? This made my day.
I think Gregor has been the Oilers unlucky charm. 5-0 Oil. Eberle gets all five and Wayne wins $1,000,000 via Safeway Score and Win. Which he immediately invests the winnings in dry cleaning gift cards to ensure his jersey is never dirty again.

OMG--getting away from tradition. I have worn my Oiler jersey since forever. If doing the opposite or something else unthinkable and outrageous, is going to be our ticket to get in the win column, then I must buy a Flame jersey. Jesus Christ have mercy on me. No, come to think of it I'd rather take the loss---can't wear anything Flames----GO OIL

Fine. Tonight, I'll throw a sacrifice onto the fire thingy in my backyard... Maybe a cow or a pig... And then I'll devour its essence to give our team strength. Desperate times calls for desperate measures...

Last night I won the NUGE jersey from the bar I frequent. Turns out the Oilers horrible start allowed me to out drink everyone else last month and take home the prize. Jersey is now with the rest in the rack and if like to think the product on the ice was only so bad so I could claim the prize. So thank you Oil.....prize is in hand now.....time to start winning

Wanye: I was filling with gas when the nozzle clicked off and I thought of you when I saw the resulting numbers. Maybe this is a sign??? Eberle and Yakupov to light it up tonight??? See the picture at the link below:

Kill me please...Stop me from watching tonight. I am weak and kinda dumb apparently cause I am drawn to the games. I almost get a giddy high when the opponents score now cause maybe that next goal against will cause significant change for the better.

Wanye: I was filling with gas when the nozzle clicked off and I thought of you when I saw the resulting numbers. Maybe this is a sign??? Eberle and Yakupov to light it up tonight??? See the picture at the link below:

Actually my credit card got stolen one time and the cops said gas attendants were likely the source. So I took to always filling up my car myself and always ended the #s with 94, 14, 4, 93 etc my wife has been filling the cars since the start of the season!!!

Ok Wanye, pulled out the huge Oiler flag I had in the front window for the'06 playoff run from its hiding place where its been since The Rakes trophy wife bitchslapped him out of town and rehung it in full view of the neighbours. Lady to my left asked if it had something to do with halloween, people across the street are pointing and giving me the headshake of shame. The jerk to my right(met once said he was from Cal. havnt spoken since) is rolling around on the front lawn splitting a gut. HAPPY WANYE!!! Piss on it, someone pass me another.